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I don’t think that Mollie, Waddy, and Tony ever did 
their tricks so well as they did that morning. 


FURTHER ADVENTURES 
OF MOLLIE, WADDY 
AND TONY 

BY 

PAUL WAITT 

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WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY 

ALICE BOLAM PRESTON 



BOSTON 

UTTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 
1919 



Copyright, 1919, 

By Little, Brown, and Company, 
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INTRODUCTION 


The thousands of boys and girls who 
read the first volume of ^^The Adventures 
of Mollie, Waddy, and Tony^' will re- 
member that mention was made of a 
second trip around the world by these 
famous elephants. 

This second trip occurred about three 
years before the elephants came to live 
for all time at Franklin Park, Boston. 

Big Mollie and Waddy and that little 
rascal Tony were then showing their 
smart tricks to the boys and girls of 
Canada after their first wonderful tour 
of America. 

They sailed for Europe from Montreal, 
Canada. 

The boys and girls who found the 
travels and antics of the big fellows on 
the first world tour interesting, will find 
their adventures on the second trip even 
more fascinating. 


INTRODUCTION 


viii 

In the introduction to the first series 
of adventures the author wrote: 

^^As to their httle talks in these stories 
the big fellows must have really said 
such things to one another because Mr. 
William Orford, their former owner, now 
living in England, says they did.’^ 

This statement applies equally to the 
stories in this volume. 


CONTENTS 


CHAPTER PAGE 

,|I. How Tony Got Hia Drink ... 3 

II. How Johan Fooled Tony .... 10 

III. How Tony Scared the Funny Men . 17 

IV. How Molly, Waddy, and Tony Pun- 

NISHED THE BrAKEMAN .... 23 

V. How Molly, Waddy, and Tony 

Played Ghosts 30 

VI. Vacation Days in England ... 37 

VII. How Tony and Waddy Rescued 

Mollie 44 

VIII. The Surprise in the Restaurant . 51 

IX. How Tony Became an Artist . . 58 

X. The Shoes on the Doorsteps . . 65 

XI. The King’s Christmas Tree ... 72 

XII. How Tony Wrecked the Bridge . 79 

XIII. The New Elephant 86 

XIV. The Night Alarm 93 

XV. How THE Elephants Saved the Fox 100 

XVI. The Cherry Blossom Tea Party . 107 

XVII. Tommy Towner’s Special Perform- 
ance 115 

XVIII. America Once More 122 


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 


I don’t think that Mollie, Waddy, and Tony ever 
did their tricks so well as they did that morn- 
ing Frontispiece ^ 

PAGE 

Tony thought they were playing with him, and 
with a squeal he started right after them . . 21 

On some of the hottest days Elsie and Elizabeth 

would have little picnics with the elephants . 41^' 

The little boy walked straight up to the ele- 
phants 71*^ 

How proud the people of that Httle Dutch village 

were of Mollie, Waddy, and Tony .... 99^ 

He saw the real Tony stand on his hind legs, just 

as he had done in the picture 121^ 





X 


Further Jldventures of 
MolliCy W 2ddyy and Tony 



Further Adventures of 

Mollky JVaddyy and Tony 


CHAPTER I 

HOW TONY GOT HIS DRINK 

I T was a beautiful June morning. The 
tall factory chimneys of Levis were 
spouting big clouds of smoke into the 
blue sky. 

Levis, you know, is a little town in 
Canada, on the banks of the great St. 
Lawrence River, just opposite the big 
city of Quebec. 

Big trucks, loaded with factory goods, 
rumbled along the narrow streets: some 
were going to the wharves on the water- 
front, others were headed for the rail- 
road station in the southern end of the 


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town. The side streets were alive with 
boys and girls. They were running and 
shouting and having a fine time at their 
games. 

Now, just about this time a train was 
speeding to Levis from the Canadian 
town of Sherbrooke. Of course, the 
children of Levis knew nothing about 
this train. If they had, they would 
have gone wild with excitement. 

Already, down at Levis station, the 
train from Sherbrooke was thundering 
in. It came to a stop. The steam hissed 
and the engineer got down from his cab. 
He carried his long-nosed oil can and 
began to oil the big engine wheels. 

The first car behind the engine was a 
baggage car. All of a sudden a side 
door of this car opened with a bang! 
Two men were in the doorway. They 
began to push some heavy planks out 
of the door. These planks were placed 
so that they slanted from the car door 
to the platform. 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 5 

What could the men be doing? After 
about ten minutes they stopped their 
work. Then something amazing hap- 
pened! 

A huge gray form appeared in the car 
doorway. What could it possibly be? 
Would you believe it? It was a giant 
elephant with a long trunk and big 
flapping ears; It was beginning to come 
down the planks. 

What was that behind it? Another 
one? Yes, another one! And, wonder 
of wonders, behind the second came still 
another one; but he was smaller and 
very cute. 

We know you have guessed it by this 
time. Sure enough, it was our good 
friends, Mollie and Waddy and that little 
rascal Tony on their way to Quebec! 
They had been entertaining the boys 
and girls down at Sherbrooke, and were 
going to take the Levis ferryboat across 
the St. Lawrence River to the big 
Canadian city on the other side. 


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Of course the appearance of the big 
fellows was the signal for a grand rush 
to the station. Molhe, Waddy, and Tony 
didnT mind the crowd of people a bit. 
They were used to crowds everywhere 
they went. 

After a very short time they were 
ready to start for the ferry. Boys and 
girls began to pour from the side streets 
to see them go by. The elephants were 
very fond of boys and girls, and they 
enjoyed every minute of their march 
through the city. Many a dainty found 
its way to the ever-hungry trunks of 
Molhe, Waddy and Tony. And once 
Tony just squealed with delight when a 
rosy-cheeked little girl placed a deli- 
cious cream cake right on the end of his 
trunk. The boys and girls followed the 
elephants down past the big warehouses 
to the ferry wharf. 

What a wonderful farewell it was 
when the whistle blew and the boat 
glided out into the river! 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 7 

“What a fine reception!’’ cried Waddy, 
her eyes still on the mass of boys and 
girls on the wharf. 

“Great!” answered big Mollie. 

“Elegant!” chirped up Tony, who al- 
ways wanted to be in on the conversa- 
tion. 

The breeze sweeping down river was 
soft and cool, and the elephants stand- 
ing on the rear deck enjoyed it. 

Mollie and Waddy were talking to- 
gether about Quebec and wondering if 
they would like the city. For the mo- 
ment they forgot Tony. Johan — you 
all remember faithful Johan, the ele- 
phants’ keeper — was back-to, by the 
rail, looking at the opposite shore, now 
only one hundred yards away. 

Just as Mollie turned around to see 
why Tony was so quiet something wildly 
exciting happened. She saw that httle 
rascal disappearing over the edge of the 
ferryboat! A mighty splash followed. 
Tony was in the river! 


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Poor Mollie and Waddy! How fright- 
ened they were! But Johan was laugh- 
ing so hard that the tears ran down his 
cheeks. You see, he knew that ele- 
phants could swim and he had no fears. 

In the meantime Tony was having the 
time of his life. He swam back and 
forth, squealing with joy and spurting 
water from his trunk just like a giant 
whale. 

Of course, Tony couldnT make a land- 
ing at the ferryboat wharf, for it was too 
high up. So Johan had to lower a row- 
boat and show him the way to a smooth 
little beach about a quarter of a mile 
below the wharf. 

You can well imagine how thankful 
Mollie and Waddy were when, from the 
back of the ferryboat, they saw Tony 
safely on the beach. 

^^How could you frighten Waddy and 
me so?’^ scolded MoUie, a short time 
later, over in the stable. 

Tonyas eyes were very sorrowful. 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 9 

awfully sorry I frightened you. 
I just wanted a drink of water,” he 
answered. 

^^Well, don’t you ever do such a thing 
again,” said Waddy, kindly, as she patted 
Tony with her trunk. 

^^Not for a thousand billion dollars,” 
promised Tony, soberly. Then he 
scooped up a trunkful of hay and tossed 
it onto his broad back. 


CHAPTER II 


HOW JOHAN FOOLED TONY 

M OLLIE, Waddy, and Tony weren’t 
a bit tired after their trip from 
Sherbrooke, but Johan was. He had 
risen very early that morning in order to 
get everything ready for the trip, and 
now he thought he would take a httle 
nap. 

You know good-natured Johan never 
stopped at hotels like most people. He 
just wouldn’t leave Molhe, Waddy, and 
Tony alone, so he always slept right in 
the stable. 

This stable in Quebec was a fine, big, 
airy place, and Johan had made a nice 
little pile of hay over in one corner for 
a bed. 

“Well, I guess I will take a snooze/’ 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 11 

he shouted at the elephants as he lay 
down and made himself comfortable. 

Little Tony drew up close to Waddy. 

'^IsnT Johan funny?^^ he whispered* 
^^He is going to bed right in the middle 
of the day.’’ 

guess men aren’t as strong as ele- 
phants,” whispered back Waddy. ''But 
we will be very quiet and not disturb 
him — won’t we? He must be very tired.” 

"Well, I guess we will be quiet,” 
answered Tony. "We’ll be so quiet he 
will think we are out.” 

Waddy almost chuckled out loud. 
She caught herseK just in time. 

The elephants had a very quiet after- 
noon ahead of them. They weren’t go- 
ing to begin showing their tricks to the 
boys and girls of Quebec until the fol- 
lowing day. Mr. Orford, their master, 
wasn’t going to arrive in town until the 
next day. He had decided to visit some 
friends in Sherbrooke for a few hours 
longer. 


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not tired/’ suddenly whispered 
Mollie, '^but I think I will he down for a 
little while, too. I ate a pretty big 
dinner, and it makes me feel sleepy.” 
So big Mollie squatted down on her 
knees and then rolled over on her big 
side. Waddy and Tony still kept on 
munching hay. 

Johan was evidently already fast 
asleep, because he lay very still with 
his eyes closed. 

• ^^Ker-choo — ker-choo — ker-choo!” 
suddenly sneezed Tony. What a racket 
that httle fellow made! An elephant’s 
sneeze makes an awful lot of noise. 
Johan jumped to his feet just as Mollie 
lumbered to hers. 

^^Here, here, here; now have you gone 
and caught cold from your swim in the 
river?” shouted Johan, going up close to 
look Tony over. 

Ker-choo — ker-choo,” sneezed Tony. 

^^You certainly have, and we have got 
to doctor you up right away,” said 


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Johan, as he began to hunt for some- 
thing in a big box close by his bed. 

Waddy gave Mollie a nudge with her 
side. They knew that Tony just hated 
to take medicine, and they also knew 
that he would not take it unless he 
had to. Time and time again they had 
told him it was for his good, but 
medicine was the one thing Tony didnT 
like. 

Tony in the meantime was watching 
Johan out of the corner of his sly little 
eye. He saw him put something into a 
big tin pail. Then he saw him heat 
some water to put in the pail. 

Tony knew that Johan was making 
some flaxseed tea, and if he hated any- 
thing it was flaxseed tea! 

Presently the big dose was ready. 

^^Now come on Tony — just drink this 
down,’’ said Johan. 

Tony sniffed at it with his trunk, but 
he wouldn’t touch it. 

Johan coaxed and coaxed in vain. 


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Then he began to think how he could get 
Tony to take it. 

^^Ah, I have it/’ he suddenly said to 
himself. “I will take his pail of water 
away. Then he will get thirsty and 
drink it.” So he took the pail of water 
away, and left the flaxseed tea in its 
place. Then back he went to his couch 
to lie down. 

“Ker-choo!” sneezed Tony once more. 
MoUie and Waddy, as of old, tried to get 
him to drink the tea. But Tony was 
stubborn and he wouldn’t. 

It was very funny, but the minute 
Tony saw Johan take his pail of drink- 
ing water away he suddenly became 
very thirsty. Still he wouldn’t touch 
the tea. This not taking medicine was 
really the only naughty thing Tony ever 
did. So he suffered all the afternoon long. 

Around five o’clock Johan awoke. He 
went over to look into the flaxseed tea 
pail. It was still full. He didn’t say 
anything about it. 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 15 


“Well, it is time for our afternoon 
walk,’’ he said to Mollie, as he began 
unfastening the chain about her foot. 
He then removed the chain from Waddy, 
and, last of all, from Tony, Open went 
the stable door and out the elephants 
walked into a kind of stable yard. Now 
elephants are very curious. Mollie, 
Waddy, and Tony, as all elephants would 
have done, began to poke their trunks 
behind boxes and into holes, hoping that 
some dainty might be hidden there. 

Now Johan, when he saw that they 
were all very busy, went back into the 
stable and picked up the pail of flaxseed 
tea. He peeked out of the stable door 
to see that Tony was not looking. Then 
he came out and hid the pail behind a 
box, just at one side of the door. Back 
into the stable he ran. 

Presently Tony came snooping along. 
He hfted his trunk high in the air and 
sniffed as he came close to the box. 
Then he slyly looked around to see if 


16 MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 

MoUie and Waddy were looking. They 
weren^t. Down came his trunk toward 
the box. Plop! It landed in the pail of 
flaxseed tea! In about four seconds 
Tony had drunk every drop, and he 
didn^t know it was his flaxseed tea. He 
thought he was stealing something, that 
little rascal! 

How Johan laughed! 


CHAPTER III 


HOW TONY SCARED THE FUNNY MEN 



^HREE days had passed since Johan 


X had fooled Tony with the flaxseed 
tea. Tonyas cold had disappeared almost 
as quickly as it had come. He was 
feehng particularly frisky this Thursday 
afternoon. Mollie and Waddy were feel- 
ing well, too. They hked Quebec a 
whole lot. 

Ever since Tuesday afternoon they 
had been showing their tricks to the boys 
and girls at the biggest theatre in the 
city, and, as in every other city, they 
were making the biggest kind of a hit. 

This Thursday afternoon the theatre 
was more crowded than ever. Every 
seat was occupied. In spite of the fact 
that there were many flne acts on the 


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program, the boys and girls talked noth- 
ing else but MolUe, Waddy, and Tony. 
They loved to see little Tony, 
dressed up like a grandma, rock the 
baby to sleep; and they also hked to 
watch the stirring fire scene, where Mollie 
and Waddy rescue Mrs. Orford, the 
master^s wife, from the burning house. 

Little did they know that this after- 
noon something very funny and unusual 
was going to happen. Even Mollie, 
Waddy, and Tony didn^t know it. 
Neither did Johan or Mr. and Mrs. 
Orford. 

Already the theatre orchestra was 
playing. The boys and girls in the 
theatre knew that the playing of the 
orchestra meant that the big curtain 
was going up very soon. Of course, 
they were very much excited. 

Presently the music became livelier. 
Then the lights went out and up rolled 
the curtain. 

Now, Mollie, Waddy, and Tony were 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 19 

not to appear until the second act. The 
first act was to be given by two funny 
men. How the children laughed when 
they came on to the stage. One was a 
great, fat chap who wore a funny tall 
hat. The other was a very httle man 
and he wore a suit of red clothes and 
a httle girhs straw hat. WasnT that 
funny — a man wearing a httle girhs 
straw hat with an elastic under his 
chin? The children just screamed with 
laughter at their funny antics, and for 
the moment forgot all about Mollie, 
Waddy, and Tony. 

Where were Molhe, Waddy, and Tony 
all this time? They were just entering 
the back door of the theatre to get 
ready for their performance. Tony 
came first, then Molhe, and Waddy last. 
Of course, when they marched upon the 
stage the boys and girls could not see 
them at first, because the scenery hid 
them. 

Johan lined them up side by side, close 


20 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


to a brick wall. Then he began to get 
some of the things ready that the ele- 
phants use in their act. Mr. and Mrs. 
Orford had gone to their dressing room 
to dress. 

Here was a chance for that little rascal 
Tony! Out of the corner of his eye 
he discovered a big piano a few feet 
away. He edged a step nearer to it, 
keeping his eyes on Johan all the time. 
Johan didn’t see him, so he took an- 
other step. Out went his long trunk, 
slyly. Yes, he could reach the piano! 
Bang! Tony brought his trunk down 
with a resounding whack on the key- 
board. It made an awful noise. The 
funny men out on the stage jumped and 
looked around. Then they began to tell 
more funny stories. 

Johan just had to laugh because he 
knew that little Tony didn’t mean 
to do any harm. But he got him away 
from that piano very quickly, I can tell 
you. 



Tony thought they were playing with him, and with 
a squeal he started right after them. 








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Out on the stage the funny men were 
getting funnier and funnier. The one 
with the little girhs hat on was riding 
a rocking horse. He looked so very 
droll that the boys and girls just 
shrieked with laughter and began to 
clap their hands. 

Now all this noise out there in the 
audience made little Tony very much 
excited. He thought the clapping was 
for him. With a bound he ran for the 
side scenery of the stage, and before 
Johan could catch him he had dashed 
upon the big stage in full sight of all 
the boys and girls! 

The funny men didnT know what to 
make of it. Not knowing him very well 
they thought he would hurt them, so 
they began to run around the stage. 
Tony thought they were playing with 
him, and with a squeal he started right 
after them. 

'^Help, help!^^ shouted the little man 
with the girks hat on. 


22 MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 


“Help, help!’’ roared the fat man all 
out of breath. 

Tears were running down the cheeks 
of the boys and girls — they were laugh- 
ing so. They thought it was all a part 
of the show. Somebody behind the 
scenes let the curtain down just then, 
and Johan ran out and caught Tony. 
Johan was laughing so he just couldn’t 
scold him. The funny men weren’t 
laughing. They were still scared. Not 
until Mr. and Mrs. Orford appeared and 
told them that Tony was only playing 
did they see the funny side of it. 

“You little rascal,” laughed Waddy, 
“what are you going to be up to next?” 

Mollie was laughing so she just 
couldn’t talk. 


CHAPTER IV 


HOW MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY PUN- 
ISHED THE BRAKEMAN 

H OOOO — HOOOO — HOO-HOO!’^ 
shrieked the whistle of the engine 
as the train sped around a curve. Molhe 
lost her balance for a second and bumped 
against the side of the big baggage car. 
“My, but we are going fast!^' she cried. 

“Oh, I hke it!’^ spoke up httle Tony. 
“I wish that we were going forty thou- 
sand times as fast!^^ 

“Ho, ho!’^ laughed big Waddy. I 
guess you would be glad to stop if you 
ever went that fast, Tony.^^ 

“Well, I would like to try it just once, 
anyway,’’ answered Tony. “And I will 
tell you another thing I would like to 
do. I would like to swim across the 
Atlantic Ocean.” 


24 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


What a funny little elephant Tony 
was! As long as he was around Mollie 
and Waddy would never lack for some- 
thing to laugh at. 

Now when Tony mentioned the At- 
lantic Ocean he didn^t reahze how very 
soon he was to see it again. Molhe and 
Waddy knew, because the night before 
they left Quebec for Montreal they had 
heard Mr. Orford telling Johan that he 
was going to take the elephants on a 
second trip around the world in a day or 
two. 

Mollie and Waddy were very much 
pleased, of course, and they thought 
they would keep the glad news from 
Tony for a little while so that they 
could surprise him all at once. Molhe 
and Waddy always had a way of doing 
this, and you can well imagine how 
curious little Tony was whenever big 
Molhe said to Waddy: “Had we better 
teU him, Waddy?” 

So now when Molhe said: “Had we 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 25 

better tell him, Waddy?’^ little Tony 
just danced up and down in his excite- 
ment. 

‘^Oh, what is it — what is it?^’ he 
begged. “Is it very nice? Will I hke 
it? Oh, please tell me.’’ 

MolHe and Waddy chuckled. They 
liked to tease little Tony once in a 
while. “Will you promise not to jump 
in rivers or scare any more funny men 
or steal sugar if we tell you?” asked 
Molhe. 

“I’ll be so good I can’t be any gooder,” 
answered Tony, still dancing about. 
Please tell me.” 

“All right,” said Mollie. “We are 
going to start tonight on another trip 
around the world! We are going to sail 
from Montreal.” 

“Wheeeeeee!” squealed Tony. And 
in his joy, he accidentally bumped into a 
brakeman who was just passing through 
the car. It was a very gentle bump and 
it didn’t hurt the brakeman at all. 


26 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


Now the brakeman was a bad man. 
He didnT like animals, or children, or 
anything else. Instead of laughing, as 
any nice man would have done, he 
turned on Tony with a snarl. 

^^Here, you beast, get over there,” he 
growled. “I will hit you over the head 
with a chair if you don’t.” 

My, how mad Mollie and Waddy were! 
If that man ever struck Tony they 
would certainly make him sorry that he 
did. 

Johan was mad, too. He had been 
reading a paper in a corner of the car 
and he had heard what the brakeman 
said. 

He told the brakeman to move along. 
The man went grumbling through the 
door. 

didn’t mean to bump him,” half 
wailed little Tony. 

^^Of course you didn’t,” comforted 
Mollie. ^^He is a bad, selfish man.” 

However, Tony didn’t let things bother 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 27 

him very long, and in a very short time 
he had forgotten the bad man and was 
asking questions about the trip across 
the big ocean. 

“All I know is that we sail tonight/’ 
said Mollie. 

Johan had gone into another car. 

^ ' Hooooo — hooooo — hoo-hoo ’ ’ went 
the engine whistle again. This time the 
curve was so sharp that it sent Waddy 
with a bump up against a big pile of 
boxes over at one side of the car. She 
struck so hard that the topmost box 
fell with a crash to the floor. It broke 
open, and what do you think fell out? 
Pretty red, yellow, blue, white, black 
and green slippers! 

Yes, slippers! Mrs. Orford used a new 
pair of slippers in every performance; 
and as they were made of paper and 
wore out very quickly, she bought 
dozens of them at a time. 

They were scattered all over the car. 

Of course Tony began to investigate 


28 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


right off. His little trunk found a red 
one. He picked it up and looked at it 
closely. 

^^Isn^t it pretty?” he said; ^^it looks 
like a posy.” 

While Mollie and Waddy were wonder- 
ing what Johan would say when he 
came back, the door opened and the 
bad brakeman came into the car. 

Tony saw him the instant he came in. 
^'Swish!” went Tonyas trunk; and the 
red shpper went saihng towards the 
brakeman. It landed on his head. 

^HTl beat you for that!” he roared, as 
he came forward. But Molhe had been 
watching and she threw a white slipper 
at him. A blue one from Waddy came 
close behind. They both hit him. Then 
as fast as they could scoop up the slip- 
pers with their trunks they threw them 
at the brakeman, who was getting very 
scared. 

^^Help, help!” he shouted in terror. 
He tried to open the door through which 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 29 


he had just come, but Johan, who had 
come back, held the knob and wouldn’t 
let him through. He wanted to teach 
the bad man a lesson. 

My, how Mollie and Waddy and Tony 
did shower that bad man with slippers! 
When Johan let him out after a while 
he was a pretty sheepish looking chap. 

Of course, Johan knew that the slipper 
box fell accidentally, so he never scolded 
the elephants a bit. 


CHAPTER V 


HOW MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY PLAYED 
GHOSTS 

N ever had the great sweep of 
ocean looked so beautiful to 
MoUie, Waddy, and Tony. They stood 
looking out of a big, square porthole at 
the far-away horizon line, where the 
sea and sky seemed to meet. It was 
very clear, and the sky was as blue as 
a pretty blanket Tony had stored away 
in one of Johanns trunks. 

think I see England exclaimed 
Tony suddenly. 

Mollie and Waddy just roared with 
laughter. ^ ' England? ’ ^ gasped Mollie. 
^^Why, we only left Montreal last night, 
you funny little elephant!’’ 

^^Oh!” was all Tony said. 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 31 

will be at least five days more 
before we see England/^ explained 
Waddy, who was always anxious for 
Tony to learn things. 

^^Is that so?^^ answered Tony. Per- 
haps it was Japan I thought I saw.’^ 

Mollie and Waddy didnT want to 
laugh too much at little Tony for fear 
of hurting his feelings, so they both 
drew back quickly into the shade of the 
big ship room, where they chuckled 
quietly. 

^^IsnT he the funniest httle elephant in 
the world?’’ whispered Mollie. 

^^Yes, and the dearest one,” whispered 
back Waddy. ^^He is always so happy 
and so bright. It would be lonesome 
without Tony — wouldn’t it?” 

^^Yes, it would,” replied Mollie, as she 
watched Tony standing by the porthole. 

Tony had stuck his trunk out over the 
side, and he breathed deep of the de- 
licious salt air. Suddenly a little thrill 
ran through him. 


32 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


Sniff! Sniff! What was that he 
smelled? It was something famihar. 

Sniff! Sniff! He did it again. It 
seemed to come from the right. So over 
to that side went his cunning trunk. 
Ever so carefully he began to feel 
around with that tiny finger on the 
end. 

He could hardly keep from jumping 
up and down, he was so excited. He 
knew that there was a window there, 
because he could feel the frame. And 
now he knew that it was open because he 
couldnT feel any glass. With even more 
care he poked his sly little trunk out a 
bit farther. 

The smell was very close now. Spush! 
He grabbed whatever it was, and swung 
it back to the porthole. He could tell 
that it was something very sweet. Then 
his little eyes saw it. It was one of 
those wonderful cream puffs. You 
should have seen him tuck it into his 
mouth as quick as a flash! However, he 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 33 

wasn^t quick enough for watchful Mollie, 
who came forward with a jump. 

“Here, what are you up to now, you 
Httle rascal?’’ she cried. 

“Sh-sh-sh!” warned Tony, as voices 
sounded from next door. Waddy had 
come forward, too, and the three ele- 
phants kept very still. 

“And this is the galley — the place we 
cook all the food for the people on the 
ship,” said a deep voice. Whoever it 
was was showing somebody around. 
“See, we are cooking some cream puffs 
for supper,” came the voice again. 

“Sh-sh-sh!” whispered Tony, trembling 
with excitement .Then the voices died away. 

Now boys and girls know better than 
to steal cream puffs, or candy, or such 
things, but elephants don’t know any 
better, not even grown ones Hke Mollie 
and Waddy. If any sweets are about 
they just can’t resist helping them- 
selves. So the three schemers put their 
heads together to see what they would do. 


34 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 

“IVe had one already/^ said generous 
little Tony. ^^Now, Mollie, you take 
your turn; and then Waddy. Then if 
there are any more left I will take my 
turn again.’’ 

Mollie and Waddy thought that was a 
fine scheme, so Mollie’s trunk went out 
of the porthole and around the corner 
this time. When it came back a delicious 
cream puff was dangling from the end. 

^^Mmm! Mmm!” she said, as it disap- 
peared into her great mouth. 

Waddy next found a big fat one, and 
then Tony tried his turn again. There 
must have been four or five dozen of 
the cream puffs; and the elephants had 
a wonderful feast. 

Just as Tony pulled the last one 
through the porthole, voices were heard 
once more in the galley. 

^^0 look! look!” shouted an excited 
voice. ^^My cream puffs are gone!” 

The elephants felt very guilty, but they 
kept very still. 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 35 

Now sailors and men who work on 
boats believe in ghosts and many other 
foohsh things. When the elephants 
heard the cook say, with terror in his 
voice, that ghosts must have stolen the 
cream puffs, they shook with laughter. 

^^Oh, I know a ghost stole them! I 
know it!^’ wailed the cook. Nobody 
but a ghost could have stolen them, be- 
cause the door to the galley was locked 
tight.’^ The poor cook made so much 
fuss that the head steward came into 
the galley to find out what was the 
matter. 

Of course the news quickly spread 
from one end of the steamer to the other, 
and very soon Mr. and Mrs. Orford 
learned what had been going on. 

^^How close are my elephants to the 
galley? asked Mr. Orford of the steward 
at dinner that night. 

''Your elephants? WTiy, they are next 
door!” 

"Well, I guess Mollie, Waddy, and 


36 MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 

Tony are the ghosts, then,^^ chuckled the 
kind master. ^^They just love cream 
puffs; and, besides, you know elephants 
have very long trunks.’’ 

^^Ha! Ha! Ha!” roared the good- 
natured steward. “I’m going down to 
tell the cook.” 

You can all well imagine how sheep- 
ish the cook felt when he heard the 
story. However, he just had to laugh in 
spite of himself. 


CHAPTER VI 


VACATION DAYS IN ENGLAND 

M OLLIE, Waddy, and Tony will 
never forget the day they reached 
their English home. Two long years had 
gone by since they left the beautiful 
country estate of Mr. Orford in the 
London suburbs, one autumn morning, 
for their first trip around the world. 

Now once more they were walking 
up the broad driveway with the pretty 
green hedges on either side. They were 
glad to stretch their legs after the long 
six days on the ocean steamer, but they 
were even gladder because they soon 
would see two little friends they loved 
very dearly. 

^^Oh, I can hardly wait to see Elsie 
and Elizabeth, cried Tony, increasing 
his pace. 


38 FURTHER ADVENTURES OP 

^^Just think — it is two years since 
we have seen them!’’ said Mollie. 
^^They probably will be big girls now.” 

^^Oh, I hope they haven’t grown an 
inch,” sighed Tony. want them to 
always be little girls.” 

Cheer up, little Tony, you will love 
them more than ever,” put in AVaddy. 

Suddenly the elephants spied the court- 
yard, with its gay flower garden in 
front and the flne stable over at one 
side. Tony just couldn’t hold in any 
longer and he began to run. Mollie and 
Waddy felt about the same way because 
they too began to race after the little 
fellow. 

There is Mr. Orford’s house,” shouted 
back Tony. 

Yes, there it was through the trees. 
Roses were running all over it, just as 
they had done when the elephants first 
saw it. 

^'0 Mollie! 0 Waddy! 0 Tony!” The 
cry came from among the trees off at 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 39 

the right. Then two little girls came dash- 
ing across the green grass in the sunlight 
towards the running elephants. Mollie, 
Waddy, and Tony stopped running. 

‘^It's Elsie and Elizabeth! fairly 
squealed Tony, and he began to trum- 
pet through his trunk at a great rate. 
Molhe and Waddy were so happy that 
they danced up and down, just as they 
did in the theatre. 

you darhng pets,^^ cried pretty 
Elsie, as she came close and began to 
pat the elephants on the trunks. 

'^We are so glad to see you,^’ greeted 
Ehzabeth with a happy little laugh. 

'^Oh look! look!^^ shrieked Elsie. 

Ehzabeth and Molhe and Waddy 
looked. What do you think they saw? 
There was Tony standing on his head. 
He just wanted to show them how glad 
he was to see them. 

While Elsie and Ehzabeth had grown 
a httle taller, they looked just about 
the same as they had two years before. 


40 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


Tony was very proud when they told 
him he had grown very much. 

“And you, Molhe and Waddy, look 
just the same,^^ declared the children, 
patting the big fellows once more. 

Sniff! Sniff! Little Tony’s trunk was 
getting busy around Elsie’s pocket. 

How the httle girls laughed when 
they found that Tony was still up to 
his old tricks. 

The little girls hadn’t forgotten. Their 
pockets were crammed with lumps of 
sugar. Mollie, Waddy, and Tony well 
knew it because they could smell it. 
It was very funny to see the elephants 
beg. Elsie and Ehzabeth just couldn’t 
resist teasing them a bit. However, 
presently out came the sugar and the 
elephants were very happy. 

Elephants that work have to have a 
vacation, like real folks. Mr. Orford had 
brought them to his estate in England 
for a rest before starting on the second 
trip around the world. 



On some of the hottest days Elsie and Elizabeth 
would have little picnics with the elephants. 




MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 41 


The elephants loved the big, roomy 
stable, and in the days that followed 
Elsie and Elizabeth brought them sugar 
every single day. They didnT miss 
one. 

Every fair morning at ten o^clock Mr. 
Orford and Johan took the elephants 
out under the trees to rehearse them in 
their tricks. They had to do this be- 
cause, if they hadn^t, the big fellows 
might have forgotten some of them. 
Then, again, practice always makes per- 
fect, you know. 

Probably the happiest time of the day 
came at five o^clock. At that time MoUie, 
Waddy, and Tony took their daily walk. 
What wonderful walks they were! They 
just roamed about on the cool, green 
grass with beautiful flowers all about. 

Down back of the house a little brook 
flowed along, and here Mollie, Waddy, 
and Tony had great times splashing in 
the cool water. On some of the hottest 
days Elsie and Elizabeth would fill their 


42 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 

lunch baskets with goodies and they 
would have little picnics with the ele- 
phants down by the brook. You can be 
very sure that on those occasions httle 
Tony got his full share of dainties. 

Thus July and August passed by. 
They were wonderfully happy months. 

And along came September, with its 
crisp, cool mornings and gay-colored 
fohage. 

“I heard Mr. Orford tell Johan that 
we were to begin showing our tricks to 
the boys and girls at the London theatre 
tomorrow,’’ said Waddy, one night, 
while the elephants were eating their 
supper in the stable. 

What’s that?” asked Tony, perking 
up his ears. Going to start around the 
world tomorrow? Horray ! Hooray ! ’ ’ 

Mollie and Waddy smiled at his en- 
thusiasm. 

^^But I’ll be awfully sorry to leave 
Elsie and Elizabeth,” he added soberly. 

^^Yes,” answered Mollie. “We will 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 43 


miss them a whole lot. But it won’t be 
long before we see them again.” 

^^No-sir-ree-sir!” agreed Tony, and he 
began nibbling his hay. 


CHAPTER VII 


HOW TONY AND WADDY RESCUED 
MOLLTE 

I WONDER if the boys and girls of 
London will like us as much as they 
did the last time we were here/’ said 
Tony, trying to peek out from behind the 
curtain. 

The three elephants were in the 
theatre, and it was almost time for their 
act to start. 

I hope so,” answered Mollie. Don’t 
you, Waddy?” 

^^Yes, I do,” agreed Waddy, as out 
of the comer of her eye she saw Johan 
tucking some sugar in his pocket. 

^^Oh, I can see the boys and girls out 
through a crack in the curtain,” sud- 
denly shouted Tony. There are 246 
billion of them!” 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 45 

^^Not quite so many as that, Tony, 
dear,’’ laughed Mollie. 

'^Well, there are a hundred anyway,” 
persisted Tony. ' Waddy just leaned up 
against a piece of scenery and shook 
with laughter. There was some differ- 
ence between 246 billion and a hundred, 
but Httle Tony didn’t realize how much. 

^'Yes, there are many hundreds, 
Tony,” went on Mollie, gently. 
guess, perhaps, there are three thousand 
boys and girls here this afternoon.” 

“And I love every one of them,” said 
Tony. “Of course, I love Elsie and 
Elizabeth the best. Isn’t it fine that 
they will be in the very front row?” 

“Yes, and we must do our very best,” 
put in Waddy. 

“That is right,” agreed Mollie. 

^ “I hope they brought along some 
sugar,” fepoke up Tony again. Never 
did the little rascal forget his sugar. 

Just then Mr. Orford came out. He 
gave them each a piece of sugar and 


46 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 

said: ^^Now, pets, we want to do our 
best this afternoon, because we have 
many httle friends in the audience.” 

A moment later the curtain went up. 
To the time of stirring music, Mollie, 
Waddy, and Tony marched out on to the 
stage — Tony in the lead. 

How the children did cheer! The 
racket kept up for fully five minutes. 
It was a wonderful welcome. 

Never did the elephants perform better. 
Their rest at Mr. Orford’s estate had 
done them a great deal of good. Even 
Mr. and Mrs. Orford, who had seen 
him many, many times, had to laugh 
when Tony rocked the baby to sleep. 
The little scamp was so funny. 

Elsie and Elizabeth, down in the 
front row, threw some loaf sugar upon 
the stage in their excitement. Tony 
saw it in a flash, but he did not go for it. 
He knew that he must finish his baby 
rocking scene. However, when he was 
bowing his way off the stage he couldnT 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 47 

resist making a quick little scoop with 
his trunk. The children in the very 
near rows noticed it and they shrieked 
with laughter. 

In the next scene the three elephants 
had to stand on their heads on big round 
tubs and do other tricks. Everything 
started splendidly. Then — crash! R-r-r- 
rip! Tear! — something terrible hap- 
pened! 

Mollie^s great weight had been too 
much for the very old stage and the 
boards had broken. Half her great body 
had sunk into the big hole! Tony and 
Waddy were by her side in an instant. 
They clasped their trunks around poor 
MoUie’s trunk and pulled tight. 

^^Hold on! Hold on!” cried Tony. 

Johan and the men will find a way to 
get you out.” 

Poor Mollie moaned and trembled. I 
guess anybody would have been scared 
in her place. 

The children out in the audience held 


48 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


tight to their chairs. Some of them 
were crying. Elsie and Elizabeth were 
very much frightened, and they felt like 
chmbing upon the stage to help. 

But Mr. Orford was already busy. He 
had gathered the stage hands about him 
very quickly. Some one let a big rope 
down from above. Mr. Orford began 
to make a big belt out of half a dozen 
old overcoats that had been left in the 
theatre. Some more men, at Mr. Or- 
ford’s bidding, raised the big curtain 
which revealed the back door of the 
theatre. 

^^Get at least six horses,^’ Mr. Orford 
told the men who opened the back door 
and went out to the street. 

All the while Waddy and Tony held 
to Mollie^s trunk for dear life. It was 
lucky that they did because, if they 
had not, poor Mollie would have sunk 
still deeper into the hole. Mollie was 
very patient. After a while the men 
got the big cloth belt under her. This 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 49 


belt was hitched to the big rope. In 
the meantime some horses clattered up 
to the rear door. 

Yes, you have guessed right. These 
horses were going to help pull Mollie 
out of the hole. 

Presently everything was ready. 

^^Now, when I give the signal, pull,^’ 
cried Mr. Orford. ^^And when I say, 
“Stop,^’ be sure and stop! And, you, 
Waddy and Tony, keep tight hold of 
Mollie^s trunk.’’ 

Waddy and Tony gripped it the 
tighter. 

^^One — two — ” 

The children in the audience just held 
their breath. 

“Three!” cried Mr. Orford. 

The rope tightened as the horses 
pulled. Waddy and Tony pulled as they 
never pulled before. And very slowly 
Mollie rose from the hole. She heaved 
a great sigh of relief when she felt the 
firm boards once more under her feet. 


50 MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 

As for the boys and girls, they just 
cheered themselves hoarse. 

“1 shall never forget what you did 
for me today, said Mollie, that night, 
back in the stable. 

^^Oh, don’t mention it. You are very 
welcome,” rephed Tony, in his funny 
httle way. 

No, Molhe wasn’t hurt a bit. 


CHAPTER VIII 


THE SURPRISE IN THE RESTAURANT 



‘HE second great trip around the 


i world had begun. Already the 
elephants had crossed the English Chan- 
nel, and they were now rushing through 
the French country aboard the train for 
Paris. It had been a glorious week in 
London, and Mollie, Waddy, and Tony 
were still talking about the old boy and 
girl friends they had seen once more, 
and the new little friends that they had 
made. 

It was very hard, of course, to say 

good-by’^ to Elsie and Elizabeth. 
However, Mollie, Waddy, and, Tony al- 
ways looked on the bright side of hfe and 
they knew that it wouldn^t be very long 
before they would see the two little 
girls again. 


52 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


The train began to slow down. Pres- 
ently it came to a stop. 

^^Is this Paris?’’ cried Tony, as he 
peeked out of the door window. 

^^Oh, no,” answered MolHe. ^^We are 
two hours away from Paris yet. Getting 
tired, little Tony?” 

^^No-o-o — I’m not tired,” replied Tony 
bravely. ^^Only I would have been kind 
of glad if this were Paris.” 

^^Well, we will be there quickly now,” 
comforted Waddy. ^^And then we’ll 
have one of our fine cosey suppers to- 
gether.” 

^^And perhaps there may be some 
sugar around somewhere,” cried Tony 
eagerly. 

^Terhaps — who knows,” put in 
Molhe. 

The train began to rumble and move 
along once more. 

Now in Paris, that week, there hap- 
pened to be playing at the same theatre 
where Mollie, Waddy, and Tony were 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 53 

going a troop of French lancers. 
Lancers are soldiers who ride horse- 
back, you know. The manager of the 
Paris theatre, knowing that Mollie, 
Waddy, and Tony were very famous 
visitors, thought it would be fine to 
have the lancers meet them at the 
station. Then the plan was to have the 
lancers escort the elephants through 
the streets to their stable. 

Down at the Paris station the lancers 
were already waiting. The horses were 
lined up side by side in the street, and 
the soldiers in bright scarlet uniforms, 
on the horses, backs, looked very grand. 

The theatre manager had forgotten 
just one thing. WeT tell you what 
presently. 

It wasnT very long before the ele- 
phants, train arrived. Of course, when 
the elephants came out of the car, a 
great crowd of people gathered as usual. 
Out where the lancers were the street 
was black with folks. A great shout 


54 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


went up as MoUie, Waddy, and Tony 
appeared. 

And now we will tell you what the 
theatre manager had forgotten. He had 
forgotten that horses are afraid of ele- 
phants. 

You should have seen those horses 
when they caught sight of MoUie, 
Waddy, and Tony! They snorted and 
reared up and behaved very badly. The 
soldiers couldnT do anything with them. 

How the crowd did scatter! Things 
became worse. The horses began to 
run. Some went up the street and some 
went down. One was so frightened he 
ran right into the station! 

Of course, there couldn^t be any 
parade now, so Mollie, Waddy, and 
Tony started up the street with Johan 
at their head. 

Arriving in front of a big restaurant, 
they had to stop because some of the 
frightened horses came tearing by. The 
elephants weren^t afraid of the horses 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 55 

a bit. In fact they were far more in- 
terested at the sight they saw through 
the big wide door of the restaurant. 
Hundreds of people were seated at httle 
tables eating all kinds of dainties. 

Just how it all happened even Johan 
doesn’t know to this day; but, as he 
turned around to bid his pets ^^come 
on,” he saw MolUe, Waddy, and Tony 
soberly walking through that big door 
into the restaurant. 

MoUie, Waddy, and Tony didn’t mean 
to do anything wrong. They just saw 
all the good things to eat, and thought 
they would go in to see if there might 
not be something good for them. 

Now the sight of three big elephants 
walking into a dining room is very un- 
usual, and, of course, the place was 
thrown into an uproar as quick as you 
could say ^^Jack be nimble.” Women 
began to scream and men began to 
shout. They climbed up on the tables. 
Chairs tipped over. My, what a terrible 


56 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


time there was! The men and women 
thought the elephants would hurt them; 
but we know better. All Molhe, Waddy, 
and Tony wanted was something to eat 
after their long trip. 

In the meantime the elephants were 
very busy. They scooped up the food 
in their trunks and gobbled it down as 
fast as they could. The ice cream, cake 
and cool salads tasted very good. 

Tony was just swallowing a whole 
blueberry pie when Johan rushed in, very 
much frightened. He wasnT frightened 
because the elephants might hurt any- 
one, but he was afraid the floor might 
not be strong enough to bear their 
great weight. But the floor must have 
been very strong, for it didnT break, and 
presently Johan had led them to the 
street again. 

While some damage had been done, it 
wasnT a great deal. Now that the ex- 
citement was all over, the men and 
women in the restaurant thought it a 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 57 

fine joke and they laughed and laughed. 

When Johan tried to pay for the 
damage, the smihng manager refused 
to take a cent. 

'^No, sir,” he said. “It is a great 
honor to have such smart elephants visit 
my restaurant.” 

Wasn^t he a nice man? 


CHAPTER IX 


HOW TONY BECAME AN ARTIST 

I T was Sunday — a day of rest for our 
clever three elephant friends. An- 
other week had gone by, and Molhe, 
Waddy, and Tony, who had been dehght- 
ing the boys and girls of Paris with their 
tricks, well deserved the rest. 

Which children do you like the best 
— the boys and girls of Paris or the boys 
and girls of London?’’ asked Waddy of 
Tony, as she picked up a loaf of bread 
and began to munch it. 

“I hke them just the same,” answered 
Tony without the shghtest hesitation. 

“ Ha ! ha ! I knew you would say that,” 
laughed Waddy. ‘^So do Molhe and I. 
Boys and girls are boys and girls, no 
matter where you go — aren’t they? ” 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 59 

“Yes, they are, ’ ^ agreed Tony. ^ ^ And I 
love them more than sugar. ’’ 

“Well, you must love them a whole lot, 
then,^^ chuckled Molhe as she winked at 
Waddy. 

“More than tongue can tell,'' replied 
the little elephant, scratching his back 
against the wall of the stable. 

“Say," he went on, “who is that man 
who came to see Johan this morning?" 

“He is an artist, I think," answered 
Mollie. 

“What's an artist?" asked the little 
fellow. 

“A man who paints beautiful pictures 
with pretty colors," explained Waddy. 

“Oh," grunted Tony, thoughtfully. 

Now the sly httle rascal had a purpose 
in asking those questions. He had 
noticed that when the artist came to 
see Johan earher in the day he had 
brought a funny-looking black suitcase 
along with him. And he had also no- 
ticed that when the artist and Johan had 


60 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 

gone out of the stable, about twenty 
minutes before, the suitcase had been 
left behind, over there in the comer. 

Tony never missed an opportunity 
hke that. He knew that on Sunday 
afternoons Mollie and Waddy generally 
took a nap, and he only hoped they 
would get sleepy before Johan and the 
artist returned. WasnT he the rascal? 

It was strange, but Tony had hardly 
wished that Molhe and Waddy^s nap- 
time would come when Molhe began to 
yawn. 

^^WeU, I guess I wiU take my nap,’^ 
she said to Waddy. 

“And I guess I will take mine, too,” 
answered Waddy. “DonT you think 
you had better take a nap, too, Tony?” 

“Me? Oh, I^m not tired,” rephed the 
httle scamp. 

So Molly and Waddy lay down and 
presently they were fast asleep. Little 
Tony had been very patient. Now he 
wanted to squeal, he was so excited. Of 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 61 

course he didn’t, because he knew that 
he would wake up MoUie and Waddy if 
he did. 

The suitcase was very easy for Tony 
to reach because Johan had forgotten 
to tell the artist to put it back out of 
the way. 

Tony hfted it over Mollie’s big body 
very carefully with his trunk. Then 
that cunning finger on the end of his 
trunk began to fumble with the clasps 
that held the suitcase together. Snap! 
up came one. It made such a noise 
Tony was scared for a minute that it 
might wake Molhe and Waddy. But 
they didn’t move. Snap! Up fiopped 
the second one, and, as it did so, the 
suitcase flew open! It was filled with 
hundreds of httle lead tubes and brushes 
and bottles. 

Tony picked up one of the little lead 
tubes and smelled of it to see if it was 
good to eat. It didn’t smell hke any- 
thing to eat, so be began to squeeze it 


62 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 

to see what might be inside. All of a 
sudden he began to bhnk his httle eyes. 
The end of his trunk was covered with 
a bright yellow something. 

He liked the bright color and thought 
it looked very pretty. 

Just then a big fly buzzed up against 
his side. He swished his trunk and 
drove it away. Funny httle fellow! He 
didnT know that he had left a big 
streak of yellow paint just behind his 
big ear! He began to rub the yellow 
paint all over his legs. He liked the 
looks of it. 

Then he picked up another tube and 
squeezed it. This contained bright red 
paint. He liked that even better than 
the yellow and he began to decorate 
himself all over. Next he found soihe 
green paint. Oh, he was having a won- 
derful time! 

When he got tired painting himself he 
began to make long streaks on the walls. 
He used every color under the sun — 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 63 

yellow, red, pink, blue, orange, purple, 
black. Every once in a while he would 
streak himself with some new color. 

Do you remember the story of Joseph’s 
coat of many colors? Well, Tony cer- 
tainly looked as if he had such a coat 
on. He was a very funny sight. The 
north wall of the stable looked hke a 
sunset. Tony’s trunk was hke a very 
fancy barber pole. Part of it was yellow, 
part of it was blue, and part red. 

Just as Tony was about to reach up 
with his trunk and decorate the ceihng, 
MoUie woke up. The first thing she 
saw when she opened her eyes was Tony’s 
brilhantly colored knees. Wondering 
what could have happened, she sprang 
up quickly. 

Waddy heard her, and she got up, too. 

They both just stared and stared at 
the little scamp. 

What on earth have you been doing? ” 
Molhe finally gasped. 

^H’m an artist!” cried Tony gayly. 


64 MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 

Just then Johan and the artist came in. 
It was all so very funny that they just 
leaned up against the wall and roared 
and roared with laughter. 

Tony didn^t like the benzine bath he 
had that night a bit. It took Johan 
over two hours to scrub the color off. 


CHAPTER X 


THE SHOES ON THE DOORSTEPS 

Q uito Gonzales was a little Spanish 
boy. He lived in a pretty cement 
house with a red roof just on the outskirts 
of the old Spanish city of Madrid. His 
big serious eyes were almost as dark 
as his ghstening black hair. He hved 
with his mother and father and was a 
very good boy. 

Quito had never heard of the famous 
MolUe, Waddy, and Tony. That may 
seem strange; but, you see, our favorites, 
in all their travels, had, for some reason 
or other, never visited Spain. Quito 
didnT even know that the elephants 
were coming to Madrid for the Christmas 
hohdays. He was only four years old, 
you know, and he hadnT seen the big 


66 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


posters of Mollie, Waddy, and Tony on 
the city billboards. 

Mollie, Waddy, and Tony, since their 
performances in Paris, had been visiting 
the various cities of France. The days 
and weeks had rolled by very quickly, 
and this very night — the night before 
Christmas — they were due to arrive in 
Madrid. 

Christmas eve! What a wonderful 
time of year! You boys and girls who 
are reading these stories well know how 
very important it is. Yes, it is the 
night good old Santa Claus comes along 
and crams your stockings full of gifts. 
If he is in a hurry he leaves the presents 
on the dining-room table. Sometimes 
he hangs them on the Christmas tree. 
Oh, I donT have to tell you anything 
about that — do I? 

Away over there in Madrid Httle 
Quito was quite as much excited as you 
would be on Christmas eve. However, 
he didnT expect Santa Claus to come to 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 67 

his house. Oh, don^t look sad. Quito 
was going to have a wonderful time, just 
as you do, only in a different way. You 
see, over in Spain Santa Claus doesn^t 
pay the boys and girls a visit at Christ- 
mas time. He has so much to do in 
other countries that the Wise Men bring 
presents to the Spanish boys and girls. 

Who are the Wise Men? Why, you 
remember! You remember the Bible 
story that tells about the birth of the 
Christ child in the stable at Bethlehem 
so many years ago. You remember 
about the beautiful star that shone so 
brightly over the stables. And we are 
sure you remember how the shepherds 
on the hillsides with their sheep, and 
the Wise Men from the East, saw that 
star and followed it until they came to 
the stable where the Christ child lay. 

Remember now? Of course you do, 
and you also remember how the Wise 
Men brought gifts to the wonderful 
new Baby. 


68 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


Well, every Christmas eve since the 
Christ child was bom, hundreds of years 
ago, the Wise Men have journeyed to 
Bethlehem. They travel on foot; and, 
while the boys and girls who Hve along 
the way are asleep, the Wise Men pause 
at their doors to leave gifts, just as 
Santa Claus leaves gifts at your house. 

The Wise Men always travelled by the 
way of Spain, and Quito placed his httle 
shoes out on the front steps, just as all 
the boys and girls of Spain were doing 
that night. Just as Santa Claus leaves 
presents in your stockings, the Wise 
Men leave presents in the Spanish boys^ 
and girls^ shoes. IsnT that very pretty? 

Quito looked so cunning as he placed 
his shoes out there on the steps! He 
wore his httle white nightie, and was 
aU ready for bed. I can tell you he 
arranged his shoes very quickly, because 
the air was sharp and he wanted to get 
back into the warm room again. 

^'Oh, I do hope the Wise Men will put 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 69 

a horse and cart in my shoes/’ he said 
to his mother, as she kissed him good- 
night. 

hope so, dear,” she answered. 
Then she tucked httle Quito snugly in 
bed. 

Now, sometime after Quito had gone 
to bed, MoUie, Waddy, and Tony arrived 
in Madrid. It was quite late, and they 
hurried through the deserted streets 
toward the stable Mr. Orford had picked 
out for them. 

Little Tony’s bright eyes suddenly 
discovered something. 

^^Oh, look, Mollie and Waddy,” he 
cried. ^^See the Httle shoes! They are 
on all the steps we are passing by.” 

MoUie and Waddy looked, and, sure 
enough, on almost every top step they 
could see shoes of all sizes and kinds. 
They couldn’t understand it, and all 
these shoes looked very funny to them. 
But, somehow, they felt very happy 
inside because the shoes made them 


70 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 

think of the boys and girls who wore 
them. 

Ten minutes went by and the elephants 
still found the shoes as they walked along. 

“Well, I give it up!’’ spoke up Waddy. 

“And I, too,” said MolUe. 

“Well, I don’t,” perked up Tony. “I 
think it is something about Christmas.” 

Clever httle elephant! He was right, 
wasn’t he? 

They were very near the stable now, 
and were just passing a pretty cement 
house with a red roof. All of a sudden 
Tony saw Johan stop. The elephants 
stopped, too. Then they saw a strange 
thing. A darling little boy, dressed in 
his nightie, was coming down the steps 
of the cement house. He was waving 
his arms as he ran out into the street. 

“Oh wait! wait!” he shouted. 

Johan was so astonished that he 
couldn’t speak for a moment. Mollie, 
Waddy and Tony couldn’t take their 
eyes off the darhng little figure. 





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The little boy walked straight up to 
the elephants. His eyes were very big. 
^'Are you the Wise Men?’’ he cried, in a 
tiny voice. 

It was dear little Quito, and he thought 
Mollie, Waddy, and Tony were the Wise 
Men, and were going to pass him by. 

My, but wasn’t Quito’s mother fright- 
ened when Johan brought him back into 
the house? She was afraid her little 
treasure had taken cold out there in 
the snow in his little bare feet. But 
Quito didn’t, and the next morning 
when he awoke he found his shoes 
almost buried in wonderful presents. 

The Wise Men hadn’t forgotten him. 


CHAPTER XI 


THE KING^S CHRISTMAS TREE 

W HEN Mollie, Waddy, and Tony 
awoke from their refreshing 
sleep that beautiful Christmas morning 
the first thing they talked about was 
little Quito Gonzales. Mr. Orford had 
come down to the Madrid stable shortly 
after their arrival, the night before, to 
see how his pets were after their long trip 
from France. Of course, Johan told 
him all about the httle boy who had 
come out into the cold street in his 
nightie. It was then that MoUie, Waddy, 
and Tony learned all about the story of 
the shoes on the doorstep, because Mr. 
Orford, who knew the customs of Spain, 
told Johan just what the little shoes 
meant. > 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 73 

“Wasn^t little Quito a dear!’’ ex- 
claimed Tony, as Johan made ready to 
give them their Christmas breakfast. 

^^He thought we were the Wise Men, 
darling httle boy,” answered Molhe. 

'^He looked just hke a httle angel, out 
there in the road, didn’t he?” put in 
Waddy. hope the Wise Men brought 
him a lot of presents.” 

^‘1 hope they brought him two hun- 
dred and seventy-four bushel baskets 
full,” cried Tony earnestly. 

Molhe and Waddy smiled. 

^^And if I get some sugar today,” went 
on Tony, ^^I’m not going to eat it. I 
am going to send it to dear httle Quito.” 

Wasn’t Tony the generous httle soul? 

The morning passed very quietly. 
About noon Mr. Orford came into the 
stable. He was smiling and looked very 
happy. Molhe, Waddy, and Tony 
couldn’t help noticing it. While Mr. 
Orford was always very kind and cheer- 
ful, it was generahy something very 


74 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


unusual that made him as happy as he 
was this morning. The elephants won- 
dered and wondered what it might be. 
Mr. Orford was talking in low tones 
with Johan over in the comer and, try as 
they would, they couldnT hear a thing. 
But they saw Johan’s face break into a 
happy smile, and they knew that, whatever 
it was, it must be very important. 

My, how curious they were! They 
were more curious still when, a few 
moments before it was time for them 
to start for the Royal Theatre, where 
they were to perform that Christmas 
afternoon, Johan began to dress them 
in their very best colored blankets. 
They only wore those blankets on very 
special occasions. 

How grand Mollie, Waddy, and Tony 
looked as they started for the theatre! 
Tony’s blanket was hght blue with gold 
trimmings. He wore a little gold em- 
broidered head-piece to match. MoUie 
and Waddy were dressed just the same. 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 75 


only Mollie^s blanket was brilliant red 
and Waddy^s a flaring yellow. 

dear me, I can’t wait to know 
what is going to happen!” cried Tony 
as he walked along the road. 

^^Be patient, little Tony, we will know 
before long,” spoke up Waddy. 

To tell you the truth, both Mollie and 
Waddy were just as curious as Tony. 

They were more puzzled than ever 
when shortly they turned a comer and 
came to a big, broad square, black with 
thousands of people. Soldiers in yellow 
and red uniforms stood in imposing 
lines on both sides of the square. 

The people cheered and cheered when 
they saw the elephants. It was a mag- 
niflcent reception, and I can tell you 
that Molhe, Waddy, and Tony walked 
very proudly, with heads up. 

^^Oh, I’ll tell you what it is,” shouted 
little Tony, excitedly, as he led the way 
through the stage door, ^^The King is 
coming to see us perform.” 


76 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


Smart little Tony! That little rascal 
had guessed right. That was just what 
was going to happen, and it was a very 
big honor. 

Molhe, Waddy, and Tony will never 
forget that Christmas afternoon in 
Madrid as long as they hve. 

The moment they came out on to the 
stage, amid a roar of cheers, they saw 
King Alphonso in the right-hand box. 
He looked very fine in his blue uniform 
and gold lace. Ah, indeed, here was a 
big surprise for MoUie, Waddy, and 
Tony, because, along with the King, 
were his two httle sons, four-year-old 
Prince Alphonso and three-year-old 
Prince Jaime. Queen Victoria, their 
mother, was there, too. How cunning 
the httle royal children looked. They 
wore uniforms just hke their distinguished 
father, and they were clapping their 
httle hands with dehght. 

The elephants, of course, under such 
conditions, never acted better. 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 77 


It was near the close of the perform- 
ance when the biggest event of the day 
occurred. Some soldiers brought a 
beautiful Christmas tree out on to the 
stage. It was loaded with sugar and 
peanuts and wonderful things that ele- 
phants love. The King had ordered it 
for MoUie, Waddy, and Tony! The 
audience, who loved their King very 
much, just rose to their feet and cheered 
and cheered him. He waved his hand 
and smiled at them. 

Now Molhe, Waddy, and Tony were 
not the only ones who were honored by 
the King at the Royal Theatre that 
afternoon. The King had learned how 
httle Quito Gonzales had mistaken the 
elephants for the Wise Men the night 
before, and he had sent him a special 
invitation to come to the theatre with 
his mother. 

So when little Prince Alphonso and 
Prince Jaime came up on to the stage 
with soldiers to give Molhe, Waddy, and 


78 MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 

Tony the dainties on the Christmas 
tree, httle Quito and his mother came 
along also. WasnT that a great honor 
for httle Quito? 

No — Molhe, Waddy, and Tony will 
never forget that wonderful Christmas 
in Spain. 


CHAPTER XII 


HOW TONY WRECKED THE BRIDGE 

S INCE that wonderful Christmas 
night in Madrid, Mollie, Waddy, 
and Tony had done a great deal of 
travelhng. They had visited many of 
the Spanish cities, and had then gone to 
Portugal. No matter where they went 
the boys and girls quite agreed that they 
were the most wonderful elephants in the 
world. At the time of this story they 
had arrived in the beautiful Itahan city 
of Venice. It was early in March. 

Now Venice, you know, is one of the 
strangest cities in the whole world. It 
is built on one hundred and seventy- 
five httle islands, and the streets are 
mostly all of water. These streets are 
called canals. 


80 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


You can readily understand how very 
funny it all looked to Mollie, Waddy, 
and Tony, who had never been there 
before. Instead of horses and wagons 
in the streets they saw countless httle 
black boats, called gondolas, gliding by. 
A man, standing at one end, steered 
with a long oar; and for the hfe of him 
little Tony couldnT understand how he 
kept his balance. 

Tony, peeking out of the window of 
his stable one Saturday morning, never 
dreamed for a moment that within the 
next hour he would be sailing along the 
canal in one of those black gondolas 
which were constantly ghding by. But 
he did. 

It happened this way. The manager 
of the Venice Theatre where Molhe, 
Waddy, and Tony were to perform 
thought it would be a fine sight for the 
children of Venice to see a real elephant 
sailing on the canals. 

While the elephants were still in Portu- 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 81 


gal he had written a letter to Mr. Orford 
asking him if he would be willing for 
Tony to take such a sail. Of course, 
Mr. Orford knew that all the children of 
Venice would not be able to go to the 
theatre to see his pets. Some of them 
wouldn’t have enough money. He loved 
the boys and girls, and wanted just as 
many as possible to see his clever Tony. 
So he wrote back to the Venice manager 
that he was willing if the manager would 
be very sure the gondola was strong 
enough to hold httle Tony. 

The manager was delighted. After 
finding the strongest and biggest gon- 
dola in all Venice, he went to the news- 
paper oflBces and asked the editors to 
put a piece in the paper about the big 
event. Thus, you see, when Saturday 
morning came around every boy and 
girl in Venice knew of the great treat 
in store. 

The cold days of the winter had gone, 
and the sun was very bright and warm. 


82 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


Every water street in Venice was lined 
with boys and girls. Some were in the 
house windows. Others were darting 
about on the canals in gondolas. 

It was just noon when MoUie, Waddy, 
and Tony marched from their stable 
around the corner, into the big broad 
square. They were very much sur- 
prised to see so many children. Just 
ahead a big gondola floated close to the 
square curbstone. 

When httle Tony found out that he 
was going to take a sail, he just danced 
up and down with glee. This tickled the 
boys and girls very much and they 
roared with laughter. Mollie and Waddy 
were a bit frightened for a moment to 
let Tony go, but then they remembered 
Mr. Orford wouldnT do anything that 
would harm Tony. 

Presently Tony stepped carefully into 
the gondola. 

“DonT you worry, Molhe and 
Waddy,’’ he cried. ^^I’m going to be a 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 83 


sailor, and I’ll tell you all about it when 
I get back.” 

The big, strong, good-natured man, 
standing at one end of the gondola, was 
laughing. He had carried lots of pas- 
sengers before, but never an elephant. 
Of course, Johan was in the boat too, 
Mr. Orford having stayed behind with 
Molhe and Waddy. When everything 
was all ready the big man in the end 
of the gondola gave his long oar a funny 
twist and away gUded the gondola out 
onto the canal. 

The children waved their handker- 
chiefs and set up a great shout. 

What do you think that Httle rascal 
did? With mischief dancing in his eyes, 
he reached his trunk out over the side 
of the gondola, and then began to squirt 
water up into the air. It was hke a 
rainstorm! It soaked the big man and 
Johan, but they didn’t care. 

Presently they turned into a very nar- 
row canal, with children on either side. 


84 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 

as far as the eye could see. Here Tony 
got another wonderful reception as he 
sailed along. Oh, he was having a 
great time! 

What was that just ahead? Tonyas 
eye had caught it. It was a small, 
green footbridge used by people to cross 
the water street. The strong man in 
the end of the gondola was paddling 
faster now, and the boat drew rapidly 
near the bridge. It was easy to see 
that it was high enough for Tony to go 
under. Somehow Tony hked the looks 
of that bridge. His little elephant brain 
was thinking rapidly. Under the bridge 
they swept. They had just come out 
on the other side when Tony tossed up 
his trunk and grabbed the bridge rail. 

^^No! No!^' shouted Johan, who had 
seen him too late. 

^^Rrrrip! Crash!’’ Away came a piece 
of the rail in Tony’s trunk. The strong 
man in the end of the gondola suddenly 
went spinning through the air and landed 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 85 

with a great splash in the water. It 
was lucky Johan was sitting down or 
he would have gone over, too. It was 
also lucky no boys or girls were standing 
on the bridge just then. Probably, if 
they had been, Tony wouldnT have 
done what he did. No, we know he 
wouldnT have. 

The boys and girls along the sides of 
the canal were shrieking with laughter. 
They knew that the water was not very 
deep and that the poor boatman would 
not drown. 

It was only a moment before Johan 
pulled him into the boat. It isnT very 
nice to be wet from head to toe, is it? 
But in spite of that fact, the gondola 
man just couldnT help laughing. 

As for httle Tony, he looked as meek 
as a lamb. To look at him, no one 
would ever have thought he had done 
anything naughty. 


CHAPTER XIII 


THE NEW ELEPHANT 

T here wasnT really a new ele- 
phant, but Tony thought there 

was. 

It is a very funny story. 

You see, another month had gone by. 
Molhe, Waddy, and Tony, since their 
visit to Venice, had been entertaining 
the boys and girls of Naples, Rome and 
another Italian city called Milan. From 
Milan they had taken the train to the 
wonderful country of Switzerland. 
When you hear the name Switzerland, 
what do you think of? Mountains! 
That is right — the beautiful Alps that 
rise up, up, up, so high they seem to 
touch the sky. 

Well, Molhe, Waddy, and Tony could 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 87 

see from their stable window these great 
mountains, whose tops were covered 
with glistening snow. 

They loved them because they were 
so big and grand. 

am very glad it is Sunday/^ said 
Tony, as he munched his hay and 
looked out of the window. ^^I’m just 
going to look at these wonderful big 
mountains all day long.’^ 

^^They are very beautiful, arenT 
they?’^ spoke up Molhe. “How would 
you hke to be up on top of that highest 
one, little Tony?’’ 

“Oh, I would just love it!” answered 
Tony, all excited. “ I bet I could jump over 
to the top of the next mountain easy!” 

Molhe and Waddy couldn’t help it. 
They just had to laugh out loud. “It’s 
a good many miles from the top of one 
high mountain to the other,” said Mollie, 
after she had stopped laughing. 

“Well, I could jump it!” cried Tony, 
confidently. 


88 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 

We do not doubt for a minute that 
Tony would have tried to, if he had had 
the chance. 

^^Say, Tony,^^ said Waddy, ^^do you 
remember when we were in Switzerland 
a year ago?” 

should say I did,” answered Tony, 
very promptly. ^^It was summer. We 
took a lovely walk out into the fields 
with Mr. and Mrs. Orford. And do you 
remember,” he went on, “how we lifted 
Mrs. Orford across the brook?” 

Mollie and Waddy remembered it very 
well. 

“That was at Geneva,” said Mollie. 
“We are now in the beautiful city of 
Interlaken.” 

Tony was looking out of the window 
again at those wonderful mountains. 
How beautiful the warm April sun made 
them look! 

In his joy at the wonderful sight, 
Tony began to trumpet loudly through 
his trunk. 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 89 

What was that? The instant Tony 
stopped there came an answering 
trumpet from way off there among the 
mountains. 

“Did you hear that?’^ cried the little 
elephant, turning to Mollie and Waddy. 

“Yes/^ rephed Mollie. But when 
Tony looked out of the window again 
she winked at Waddy. They both knew 
that the noise Tony had heard was an 
echo. 

But Tony didnT know. 

“Blat! blat! blat!’’ trumpeted Tony 
once more. 

Perhaps half a second went by and 
then, “Blat! blat! blat!’^ came the an- 
swer from far off. 

“It^s another elephant, and he hkes 
me!^^ almost shouted Tony now. “Blat! 
Blat! Blat!’’ he went again. 

“Blat! Blat! Blat!” came back the 
answer. 

Mollie and Waddy just chuckled to 
themselves. They said never a word. 


90 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


If Tony ^^blatted’^ once to his elephant 
friend somewhere off among the moun- 
tains that Sunday day of rest, he 
^^blatted’’ a hundred times. 

In fact, the very last thing he did 
before he went to bed was to put his 
Httle trunk out of the window and give 
three rousing good-night blats. 

^^Blat! Blat! Blat!^’ the answer came 
saihng back on the air. 

There, he said good-night,” said Tony, 
as he lay down with Mollie and Waddy, 
^^I hke that new elephant a whole lot, 
and I am going to see him tomorrow.” 
Mollie and Waddy just buried the end 
of their trunks in the hay so that Tony 
would not hear them laughing. 

Presently everything was very still. 

Was Tony asleep? Not Tony! When 
Johan had come into the stable a short 
time before Tony played that he was 
asleep, but now that everything was 
still over in Johanns corner and Mollie 
and Waddy were snoring loudly, he rose 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 91 

very quietly to his feet. Johan didn^t 
forget very often to put Tonyas foot 
chain on, but tonight he had. 

The sly httle rascal began to walk 
quietly to the big door. Every few feet 
he would pause and listen. Then he 
would move forward again. The door 
opened outward. He leaned against it 
and it moved. He pushed a httle harder. 
Open it went, just wide enough for him 
to squeeze through! He liked the cool 
wind on his face. 

Oh, poor Tony! 

^^Slam!’^ went the door, as he came 
through. He had forgotten to hold it 
with his trunk! He stood as still as a 
statue, and was very scared. However, 
the noise did not wake Molhe, Waddy 
nor Johan; and he began to breathe 
easier. 

Then Tony, waving his trunk in the 
air, began to run down the road towards 
the mountains. He was going to hunt 
for the new elephant! 


92 MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 

Now when boys or girls do something 
that they ought not to do they always 
get caught. It was the same with httle 
Tony. In his excitement to find out 
just where the new elephant might be 
he trumpeted loudly. In the still night 
air he made a terrible noise. He had 
forgotten that Johan might also hear 
him. Johan did hear him, and in a few 
minutes he came down the road on the 
run. 

Then Mr. Tony was marched straight 
back to the stable. Of course, Mollie 
and Waddy had been awakened in the 
excitement. 

just wanted to find the new ele- 
phant,’^ whispered Tony. ^^He might 
be hungry, and I could help him find 
something to eat.” 

Then in low whispers Mollie told him 
all about the echo. 

“Well! Well! Well!” was all Tony 
could say. 


CHAPTER XIV 


THE NIGHT ALARM 

W ELL, my beauties, we are in 
Holland at last,^^ cried Johan, 
as the train came to a sudden stop and 
threw Tony up against the wall of the 
baggage car. 

Holland! 

Although Molhe, Waddy, and Tony 
had travelled almost everywhere, they 
had never been in Holland before. They 
had heard a great deal about it and were 
most eager to see what it looked like. 
You can well imagine how pleased they 
were when they heard Johan say that 
they had arrived. 

The best part of it was that they were 
going to be allowed to enjoy themselves 
for a week. They had been working 


94 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


very hard, and Mr. Orford, instead of 
taking them direct to Amsterdam, where 
they were going to perform, decided to 
let them rest for a few days in a quiet 
httle village out in the country. And 
here they were. 

What a wonderful day it was! MolUe, 
Waddy, and Tony hadnT realized it was 
such a beautiful day when they rode in 
the dark car. Oh, how good they felt 
to be out in the street once more, stretch- 
ing their legs! It was late May and 
the sun was warm and bright. The 
sky was very blue. 

The elephants were too interested to 
talk as they walked along, because the 
things they saw were all so new to 
them. Somehow, the httle viUage looked 
hke a picture-book toy viUage. Great 
gardens of beautiful tuhps were every- 
where. Never had the elephants seen 
such wonderful color. Over at the left 
was a field of red tuhps, stretching off 
as far as the eye could see. Just across 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 95 


the narrow street was another field of 
yellow tulips. The fiowers rustled and 
trembled in the warm breeze. Tony 
thought they looked like two beautiful 
colored lakes. 

The country all around was very flat. 
Tony was particularly interested in the 
funny windmills which bobbed up every- 
where. My, how their great paddles 
spun around and around in the wind! 

The houses along the way seemed very 
tiny — almost hke toy houses. Several 
canals looked like long silver ribbons, 
flashing in the sun. 

^^Oh, it is the prettiest place I ever 
saw!’’ cried little Tony, as he came 
alongside another field of purple tulips. 

“It is all like a fairy story,” said 
Mollie. 

“I love it,” put in Waddy. 

How quiet the people were on the 
streets! They silently watched Mollie, 
Waddy, and Tony go by. Even the 
cunning boys and girls were quiet. These 


96 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


Dutch people looked quite as quaint to 
Mollie, Waddy, and Tony as the pretty 
country all about. 

Tony hked the bright red jackets the 
boys wore, but he wondered why their 
httle trousers were so bulgy and big. 
The httle girls wore spick and span 
aprons, and neat httle white starched 
bonnets on their golden heads. 

We don^t have to tell you about the 
wooden shoes they wore — do we? 

They looked very strange to the ele- 
phants. Tony whispered to Waddy that 
they must be very heavy to wear. 

^^But they are used to them,’^ whis- 
pered back Waddy, as Johan led the 
way into a cosey stable at the right. 

The sweet Dutch hay they had for 
supper that night tasted dehcious; and 
because they liked it so well, Johan 
gave them a bit more than usual. 

There not being any evening per- 
formance, the elephants went to bed 
right after supper. 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 97 

Just before they went to sleep, Waddy 
said to Mollie: ^^MoUie, did you notice 
those long walls on the edge of the 
town, when we were walking to the 
stable this afternoon?’^ 

^^Yes, I did. I wonder what they are 
for.^^ 

Perhaps they are a fort,^^ said Tony. 

Johan knew what those walls were. 
They were dikes. The country of Hol- 
land is so very low that these dikes 
have to be built of earth and stone to 
keep the sea from flooding the land. 
Every once in a while these dikes break, 
and the rushing water causes great 
damage to the houses and fields. 

How were MoUie, Waddy, and Tony to 
know? They had never been in Hol- 
land before, and, besides, you know, 
elephants canT read books. So they just 
forgot about them and went to sleep. 

How long they slept they did not 
know, but suddenly they were awakened 
by an awful noise. 


98 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 

Boom! Boom! Boom! WTiat could it 
be? It was pitch dark. Outside, the 
elephants could hear men running and 
shouting. Boom! Boom! Boom! 

Surely those were cannon shots! Johan 
had rushed out to see what was the 
matter. The noise was growing bigger. 
Presently he came back. 

‘^1 guess we can help, my pets,’^ he 
said. Then he led Molhe, Waddy, and 
Tony out into the street. 

The street was filled with men, women 
and children; and they were all running 
in one direction. They carried spades 
and pick-axes. 

The elephants quickly learned what 
the trouble was. The dike had sprung a 
leak, and the guards had sounded the 
signal for people to help fix it. 

Of course, Mollie, Waddy, and Tony 
were slower in getting to the edge of 
the town than the people, but when they 
arrived at the dikes they helped won- 
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which half a dozen men couldn^t have 
lifted, and tossed them into the dike 
hole. 

Then the people began to cover these 
stones with earth. 

All the time the elephants were stand- 
ing up to their knees in water, but they 
didnT mind it at all, as long as they 
were helping. 

In two hours all danger was over. 

How proud the people of that little 
Dutch village were of Mollie, Waddy, and 
Tony! The next day they came to the 
stable by the hundreds to see them; and 
you can just be sure they had their big 
pockets filled with all kinds of sweets 
for the elephants. 


CHAPTER XV 


HOW THE ELEPHANTS SAVED THE FOX 

M OLLIE, Waddy, and Tony were 
very glad that they went to 
Warsaw, in Russian Poland, because in 
doing so they saved the hfe of a darhng 
httle black fox. 

Many months had gone by since that 
exciting night in Holland, when they 
had helped fix the dikes. The elephants 
had visited Norway, Sweden and Den- 
mark, and for the past month they had 
been showing the children of western 
Russia how smart they were. 

Molhe, Waddy, and Tony had been 
in Warsaw three days at the time of 
this story. Two of those days it had 
poured and poured. It had rained so 
hard that the elephants couldn’t take 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 101 

the daily afternoon walk they loved so 
much. They just hurried back and 
forth from the theatre, and longed for 
the coming of the sunshine again. 

When Sunday came, Mollie, Waddy, 
and Tony woke up in their stable to find 
the sun pouring in through the window. 
How happy they were! 

“Now we will have our walk,’^ cried 
Tony, as he rolled over and rose to his 
feet. 

Mr. Orford knew that sunshine was 
good for elephants, just as it is good for 
boys and girls, and he made plans at 
once to take Molhe, Waddy, and Tony 
for a walk out into the country. 

They started with Johan right after 
breakfast. How good it seemed to walk 
along the quiet streets. Everything was 
so sweet and clean after the rain. After 
a while they left the houses behind. The 
fields looked very green. Pretty wild 
flowers grew along the side of the road. 
Tony plucked a pretty blue one with his 


102 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


trunk and held it up for Mollie and 
Waddy to see. 

“Oh, it is great to be alive shouted 
the little elephant, as he began to kick 
his back legs up and down. 

He looked so funny that even Johan, 
who was used to his tricks, had to 
laugh. 

On they went. 

Now several miles over the hills to 
the right was a rich man^s clubhouse. 
If Mollie, Waddy, and Tony could have 
peeked beyond those hills this Sunday 
morning they would have seen a won- 
derful sight. Hundreds of men wearing 
blue, yellow and red coats were climbing 
upon their horses in front of the club- 
house. Hundreds of dogs ran here and 
there among the horses. 

WTiat was it all about? Well, these 
men called themselves “sportsmen,’’ and 
they had gathered together this day for 
the purpose of chasing one little fox 
who, even now, was imprisoned in a 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 103 


box over by the clubhouse steps. The 
dogs were sniffing at the box and scaring 
the httle fox very much. Personally, 
we donT think it was very nice. What 
do you think about it? 

After a while two men picked up the 
box with the little fox inside and carried 
it about two hundred yards out into 
the field, in front of the clubhouse. 
The dogs were being held back by the 
men. 

Suddenly a shout went up. The men 
out in the field had let the fox go. Like 
a black streak he dashed across the 
field. Over near the clubhouse the dogs 
saw him. They set up an awful bark- 
ing. Then the men let them go. Behind 
the hundreds of dogs came the hundreds 
of men on horseback. And they were all 
chasing one poor httle fox! 

How frightened the little fox was, as 
he dashed along! He knew that if the 
dogs caught him they would tear him 
to pieces. He also knew that the men 


104 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


on horseback wouldn^t stop the dogs 
from doing so. Poor httle fox! He was 
running for his very hfe! 

The barking of the dogs behind him 
made him more frightened than ever; 
and the thud! thud! thud! of the horses^ 
hoofs was most unpleasant to hear. 

Oh, dear me, those dogs were gaining 
on him! What could he do? He looked 
to the right and left. There was nothing 
but open fields all about. If there had 
only been some woods! 

But there werenT, so on he rail, up the 
green slope ahead. Perhaps there may 
be some woods on the other side of the 
hill, he hoped. He reached the top. 
How his httle heart sank when he saw 
nothing but fields — fields — ahead ! 

But what was that he saw down there 
in the road? 

^^Yap! yap! yap! yap!’' The dogs 
sounded very much nearer. Poor httle 
fox! He just flew for the road. 

Can you guess what he had seen down 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 105 


there in the roadway? It was Molhe, 
Waddy, and Tony, walking along. They 
heard the awful noise and looked up 
towards the hills. 

When the elephants saw that all these 
men and dogs were chasing one httle 
fox they were much provoked. 

Somehow the poor little fox knew that 
he would find friends in Mollie, Waddy, 
and Tony. He just ran straight to them, 
and crouched panting down between 
httle Tonyas front feet. 

On came the dogs. 

MoUie, Waddy, and Tony began to 
trumpet wildly. The dogs, very much 
frightened, stopped and ran behind the 
men on the horses. 

^^Here!’^ shouted a big fat man from 
one of the horses. ^^Get your elephants 
out of the way and let us get the fox.’' 

^^No, sir!” cried kind-hearted Johan. 

You come and get that fox if you dare.” 

Molhe, Waddy, and Tony had their 
trunks high in the air, and they looked 


106 MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 


very dangerous. The dogs didnT dare 
to come near, and neither did the men. 
Oh, how mad the men got; but it was 
no use. Johan wouldnT give up the 
poor httle fox. Grumbling, they finally 
rode away, with the dogs after them. 

Tony looked down at the trembling 
httle fox, whose big black eyes seemed 
to say, Thank you! Thank you!^^ Dear 
little Tony just felt like crying. 

What became of the httle fox? 

Oh, about a mile farther down the 
road, just over another hill, the elephants 
came to some woods. The httle fox 
had walked along with them up to this 
time. Now he darted away into the 
underbrush, as free as the air itself. 

How happy Molhe, Waddy, and Tony 
were! 


CHAPTER XVI 


THE CHERRY BLOSSOM TEA PARTY 

K OJIRO was a tea merchant. He 
lived in far-away Japan. Little 
Sakura San and Mimosa San were his 
two little girls, and Kojiro loved them 
very dearly. 

They all hved in a pretty httle Japa- 
nese house in the city of Tokio. Oh, it 
was a very different kind of a house 
from the ones you boys and girls live in. 
One great big room was divided into 
smaller rooms, not by walls, but by 
pretty paper screens. These screens were 
covered with paintings of mountains, 
birds, fish and what not. 

It was tea time and Sakura San and 
Mimosa San were sitting, cross-legged, 
on the floor with their father, drinking 
tea. 


108 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 

How cunning the little girls looked! 
Sakura was dressed in a pure white 
kimono with little gold dragons em- 
broidered on it. Mimosa’s kimono was 
of hght blue, with httle silver fish worked 
on it. 

^^Oh, I have some fine new dresses for 
you tomorrow,” said their father, be- 
tween sips of his tea. 

“0! 0! 0! 0!” cried the little girls 
together as they clapped their hands. 

can hardly wait for tomorrow to 
come,” said Sakura, her httle black 
almond-shaped eyes hashing. 

^^Nor I,” came from Mimosa. ^^Oh, I 
love cherry blossom time!” 

Tomorrow was indeed going to be a 
great day. 

It was cherry blossom time in Japan — 
that wonderful April time when the 
whole land celebrates the coming of 
beautiful spring. 

Mimosa San and Sakura San were 
going to give a special party, out under 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 109 

the cherry trees in front of their house; 
and they thought that they knew the 
name of every one who was coming. 
However, they didn^t. 

Their father had a great surprise for 
them, and he had kept the secret well. 

Mimosa San and Sakura San, when 
they sipped their tea, didnT know that 
there was a most important letter in 
their father^s pocket; but there was, and 
that letter had to do with the big surprise 
which was coming the next day. 

You see, the little girFs father had 
travelled a great deal. On one of his 
trips in England he had met Mr. Orford 
and had becpme very friendly with him. 

Only yesterday Kojiro had received a 
letter from Mr. Orford, telling him that, 
after nearly a year in Russia, he was 
going to bring Molhe, Waddy and Tony 
to Tokio. The elephants were expected 
to arrive that very night. 

Well, what did this all have to do with 
Mimosa San and Sakura San? It had a 


no FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


lot to do with them. Kojiro was going 
to invite them to the httle girls’ cherry 
blossom party. 

Late that night, long after Mimosa 
San and Sakura San had gone to sleep, 
MolUe, Waddy, and Tony arrived in 
Tokio. They were very tired and went 
right to bed after entering the stable. 
They had had supper aboard the train. 
They slept very soundly. 

Mimosa San and Sakura San didn’t 
sleep so soundly. They were very much 
excited over the coming party. 

At last morning came. Oh, it was a 
golden day! The little girls rushed to 
the windows and threw them wide open. 
They sang funny httle Japanese songs, 
they were so happy. 

Now Mimosa San and Sakura San 
hved on that famous street in Tokio 
called the Sakurado. Nowhere in all 
Japan are the cherry trees so plentiful as 
along this street. Thousands of these 
white feathery-laden trees stretched for 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 111 

miles on either side of the road. Ajid 
the air was sweet with their soft perfume. 

Out under the fluffy trees in front of 
the httle girls^ house it looked like a 
beautiful fairyland. Under the white 
blossoms gay-colored Japanese lanterns 
had been strung from the branches. 
Little black, laquer tables dotted the 
bright green grass. 

Now Mimosa San and Sakura San 
weren^t the only ones along the beautiful 
Sakurado who were going to hold a party 
out under the dainty trees. Every family 
for miles were going to have parties 
too, and every lawn was a dreamland. 

Already hundreds of people in gay 
costumes were gathering on the lawns all 
along the way. The cherry-blossomed 
trees seemed like lacy tents over their 
heads. Can you imagine a thousand 
picnics all going on at the same time? 
Well, that is what the Sakurado looked 
like this morning. 

Mimosa San and Sakura San were 


112 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


already receiving their young friends. 
Oh, but they looked gay this morning! 
Sakura’s new gown was of pink, covered 
with golden birds. Mimosa’s was of 
yellow, with glaring red butterflies. 
Under the white trees the little folks 
looked like walking flower gardens in 
their gay colored kimonos. 

For two hours the children played 
games and had the most wonderful kind 
of a time. Then Kojiro came out under 
the trees and held up his hands for the 
children to be silent. The many little 
voices hushed. 

have got a big surprise for you all,” 
he said. ^^Now, look over by the foun- 
tain at the corner of the house.” 

Every pair of eyes looked. Suddenly, 
around the comer of the house came a 
huge form. It was Mollie. Behind her 
came Waddy. Then little Tony. 

How those children did shout for joy! 
Little Sakura and Mimosa were so de- 
lighted that they just ran up to their 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 113 

father and kissed him on each cheek. 
Of course, boys and girls from the other 
parties along the street ran over to look. 

I don^t think that Mollie, Waddy, and 
Tony ever did their tricks so well as 
they did that morning, out under the 
cherry trees. 

^^Oh, it^s snowing!’’ cried little Tony 
at one time, as some of the cherry blos- 
som petals, loosened by the breeze, fell 
to the ground. 

Of course the boys and girls couldn’t 
understand what Tony was saying. 
They certainly would have laughed had 
they known. 

You should have seen the sugar Mollie, 
Waddy, and Tony had before the day 
was through. If they had eaten any 
more they would have been ill. 

^^It all seems like a dream,” said Mollie 
that night, back in the stable. 

^^Doesn’t it?” agreed Waddy. ^^And 
wasn’t that pretty about Sakura San’s 
name? ” 


114 MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 

^^What was that?’’ asked Tony. 
^^Why, I heard Johan telhng Mr. 
Orford that 'Sakura’ means ^cherry 
blossom’ in Japanese.” 

Isn’t that sweet?” cried httle Tony. 
“Sakura San is a dear little cherry 
blossom; and I love Mimosa very much, 
too.” 


CHAPTER XVII 


TOMMY TOWNER^S SPECIAL PERFORMANCE 



HE big billboards in the city of 


X Melbourne, Australia, were covered 
with pictures of Mollie, Waddy, and 
Tony. Big printing underneath the pic- 
tures said that the elephants were to 
show their tricks to the boys and girls, 
at the Melbourne theatre, during the 
coming week. 

The fame of our favorites had spread 
clear around the world, so of course the 
boys and girls of this big Austrahan city 
could hardly wait for the great event. 

For days now, Mollie, Waddy, and 
Tony had been on the ocean, sailing to 
Austraha from far-away Japan. They 
were expected to arrive on Friday night. 

Down on a very poor street of the big 


116 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 

city there lived a little boy. His name 
was Tommy Towner. Poor little lad, he 
was paralyzed! Day in and day out he 
had to lie flat in his bed, just looking 
out of the window at everything that 
might happen to pass by. He lived on 
the second floor. 

Across the street from his window was 
a big billboard. Two days before, the 
man with the pail and long brush had 
come to put up some new pictures. 
Tommy was always glad when this man 
came along, because looking at the same 
pictures day after day was very tiresome, 
and he was glad when some new ones 
were put up. This billboard was really 
the only picture book Tommy Towner 
had. Poor Tonuny^s mother was so 
poor she couldnT afford to buy him such 
things. But dear httle Tommy never 
complained. 

He just clapped his little hands with 
joy when he saw the billboard man. He 
saw him unfold the big pictures. Oh, 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 117 

what were they going to be this time? 
The last time there had been a picture 
of a big cake of soap. 

The man, after waving at Tommy, as 
he did on every trip, began to paste 
up one long strip. Tommy looked and 
looked, but couldnT make a thing out 
of it. Then another strip went up. It 
looked hke a gray mountain. Tommy 
thought. 

Splash! Splash! went the man^s long 
brush into the pail of paste once more, 
and when another strip of picture was 
pasted alongside the other two, the little 
boy shouted with joy. There were three 
elephants doing funny tricks on the 
billboard! 

During the last two years Tommy had 
never seen such pictures. He looked at 
them all day long. When night came he 
was sorry, because he knew he couldn’t 
see them again until the next morning. 

When his dear mother kissed him and 
tucked him in for the night, little Tommy 


118 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


looked up at her with a tear in his eye 
and cried, ^^0 mother, those elephants 
are really coming to Melbourne! How 
I would love to see them!’’ 

Of course. Tommy’s mother felt very 
badly. Like all good mothers, she 
wanted her little boy to be happy. You 
can imagine how heavy her heart must 
have been when she thought how other 
boys and girls could run about out in 
the sunshine, while her httle treasure had 
to he in bed every day in the year. 

Little Tommy dreamed about Mollie, 
Waddy, and Tony that night; and the 
first thing he did in the morning was to 
look out of the window to see if they 
were still over there on the billboard. 
Yes, they were still there. How glad he 
was! 

Now late Friday night, if Tommy 
Towner could have heard a httle conver- 
sation that was going on in one of the 
uptown hotels, he wouldn’t have slept a 
wink. Over in the corner of the hotel 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 119 

dining room Mr. Orford and the kind- 
hearted billboard man were talking 
earnestly. Mollie, Waddy, and Tony had 
arrived safe and sound two hours before, 
and they were already in dreamland, in 
a fine roomy stable. 

^^So this httle boy has to stay in bed 
all the time,’’ Mr. Orford was saying. 

^^Yes,” rephed the billboard man. 
it is a shame, because he is the 
dearest httle chap you ever saw.” 

^^Well, now I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” 
said Mr. Orford, finaUy. ^^You know 
Molhe, Waddy, and Tony have a hoHday 
tomorrow. They do not have to play at 
the theatre until Monday afternoon. 
I’ll take the elephants down to Tommy’s 
home, and we will give a httle private 
performance right out in the street in 
front of his window.” 

^^Oh, Tommy will never forget it, Mr. 
Orford!” cried the billboard man. 

^'Poor httle fellow,” said Mr. Orford. 

When Saturday morning came the 


120 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 

first thing little Tommy Towner did when 
he awoke was to peek out of the window 
at the marvellous billboard pictures of 
Molhe, Waddy, and Tony. 

^^They^re still there, mother; they’re 
still there!” he shouted gladly. 

All morning long he looked at the 
pictures. He wondered how on earth 
Tony could stand on his hind legs as he 
was doing in the picture. 

About twelve o’clock something amaz- 
ing happened. A pohceman on horse- 
back came clattering down the street. 
He stopped in front of Tommy’s house 
and waved at the little boy up in the 
window. Behind the pohceman were 
some more policemen. 

Oh, mother, come quick!” shrieked 
Tommy. There is something going on!” 

Tommy’s mother rushed into the room 
and looked out. 

“Oh, it’s the elephants. Tommy; it’s 
the elephants!” she cried; and there 
were tears of joy in her eyes. 


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He saw the real Tony stand on his hind legs, just as 

he had done in the picture. 



MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 121 

She placed an extra pillow under little 
Tommy’s head so that he could see 
better. 

Oh, it was wonderful! There were 
Molhe, Waddy, and Tony right down 
there in the street. They had stopped 
and were waving their trunks at the 
lame boy. 

Hundreds of children filled the side- 
walks. For half an hour httle Tommy 
Towner saw the most wonderful sight 
he had ever seen in his life. He saw the 
real Tony stand on his hind legs, just 
as he had done in the picture. He saw 
Molhe and Waddy dance. They did 
every trick that they knew. 

Here is the best part of this story: 
Only a short time ago Johan received a 
letter from Tommy Towner, and that 
letter said that the dear Httle chap 
was almost well. Aren’t we glad! 


CHAPTER XVIII 


AMERICA ONCE MORE 

T he second trip around the world 
by MoUie, Waddy, and Tony was 
fast coming to an end. After three 
wonderful weeks in Austraha they sailed 
for Cape Town, South Africa, and from 
there they took another big steamer for 
America. 

Four days more and they would land 
in Boston, once again. 

They were very glad, because for over 
two years they had been roaming about 
all over the world. Such trips as that 
from Japan to Australia, and from Aus- 
traha to Cape Town, were very long 
and tiresome. They knew that during 
their second tour of America the journeys 
between places would be very short 
ones. You see they liked their stable 


MOLLIE, WADDY, AND TONY 123 


much better than the baggage car or a 
stall aboard a ship. 

The ship was pitching and rolling 
frightfully, but the elephants didnT mind 
it much. They were used to all kinds of 
weather on the ocean. However, they 
just had to brace their feet to keep from 
slipping in the hay. 

Tony liked it. 

“Oh, I wish the boat would turn right 
over,^’ he cried gleefully. “Then I could 
walk right on the ceihng.^^ 

MoUie laughed. “I guess you 
wouldnT want it to happen, httle Tony,” 
she said. “Some one might get hurt.” 

“Oh, if anybody would get hurt, I 
wouldnT want it to happen,” answered 
Tony more seriously. 

“Well, Tony, are you glad that we are 
going back to America? ” It was Waddy 
talking now. 

“Oh, I^m tickled to death,” answered 
the little rascal. “Oh, wasnT that a big 
wave?” 


124 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF 


The boat had given an extra heavy 
lurch, and the elephants had shpped two 
or three feet along the hay-covered floor. 

''Yes, and I hope they don't get any 
bigger," answered Molhe, anxiously. 

" I hope they get as big as the mountains 
in Switzerland," cried Tony, all excited. 

Molhe gave Waddy a wink. 

Finally Waddy spoke again. 

"Say, Tony, what do you hke best 
about our trip around the world?" 

Tony thought a moment and then he 
answered: "Oh, I liked the day we met 
Quito in Spain. No, I don't; I hke the 
day I sailed down the canal. No, I 
don't; I hke the party in Japan with 
Sakura and Mimosa. No, I don't; I 
hke the day we gave a performance for 
Tommy Towner. No, I don't — " 

"Here! Here!" interrupted Molhe. 
"You are liking everything the best." 

"That's it!" cried Tony. "I hke all 
of those things best, and I don't hke 
one any better than the other." 


MOLLIi; WADDY, AND TONY 125 


How Mollie and Waddy did laugh! 

Wasn^t Tony the funny little scamp? 

The storm cleared up that night. 

Somehow the time didnT pass so slowly 
on the trip to America as it did on the 
long voyage from Australia to Cape 
Town, and it seemed hardly any time 
at all before Mollie, Waddy, and Tony 
awoke one morning to find that they 
had already landed in Boston. 

Sometime, perhaps, we will tell you 
about their wonderful adventures during 
their second tour of the great United 
States. But for the time, let us be very 
glad that they arrived safely, back in 
this country, after a second most in- 
teresting trip around the world. 


THE END 





The story of a little 'patriotic Cuban girl 


LITTLE CUBA LIBl^ 


By JANIE PRICHARD DUGGAN 
Illustrated. 282 pages. 12mo. $1.35 net. 


In all the big city of Havana there was no more patriotic 
little girl than Amada Trueno, daughter of one of the city\ 
gardeners. With all her heart she hated the Spaniards who 
ruled her beloved island of Cuba. “Little Cuba Libre” they 
called her when she stamped her foot and called the Spaniards 
enemies and tyrants. When she went to her cousin’s house 
in the country, although she played on friendly terms with 
the children of a Spanish planter, still her hatred of the op- 
pressors slumbered. How the Cubans finally revolted, and 
how little Amada herself took part in that revolution, even 
to the extent of bearing arms, is told in this charming story. 
“Little Cuba Libre” contains faithful pictures of Cuban life 
and Cuban people, and while written especially for young 
readers, its fine qualities should also appeal to older ones. 
Besides being an interesting story of Cuban girlhood it is a 
depiction of the very spirit of patriotism. 


LITTLE, BROWN & CO., Publishers 

34 Beacon Street, Boston 


Real stories of three famous elephants 


THE ADVENTURES OF 
MOLLIE, WADDY and TONY 

By PAUL WAITT 

Illustrated in color by Clara E. Atwood. 

75 cents net. 


Molly, Waddy and Tony are three of the most wonderful 
elephants in the world. Born in India, they have traveled 
all over Europe and our own America, showing their clever 
tricks to thousands of boys and girls. They were bought by 
the children of Boston and are now kept in the Franklin 
Park Zoo, where they will remain the rest of their lives. 

Mr. Waitt writes of their adventures .when they were 
traveling, and tells of some tricks they played which their 
keeper never taught them. Little Tony is the roguish one, 
and he is always getting into mischieL That clever little 
trunk of his pokes into all sorts of places where it doesn’t be- 
long, and sometimes it takes Mollie, Waddy and Johann, the 
keeper, to make him behave as a proper little elephant should. 


“This is the most bewitching elephant story we ever read. 
It is the story of their travels through many countries. It is 
as good a story for boys and girls as any boys and girls will 
ever want to read.” — Journal of Education, Boston. 

“The story of ‘The Adventures of Mollie, Waddy, and 
Tony” is one of the nicest that little people who like animals 
can read.” — New York Times. 


LITTLE, BROWN & CO., Publishers 

34 Beacon Street, Boston 



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